In fact, the most authentic alms chicken is not like that in the video. There are two kinds of alms chicken, one is whole chicken, and the other is all kinds of vegetables and ingredients heated in hot water and put into seasoning soup.
The most authentic alms chicken is a special food with technical content. First, clean a fresh rooster, remove its internal organs, put it in cold water, and add onions, ginger and cooking wine to the cold water to remove the fishy smell. After the fire boils, blanch the chicken to remove the blood foam, which can avoid behavioral problems in post-production.
Then take out the chicken, rinse off the floating foam on the body, then take a casserole, add the broth made of big bone strips into the casserole, then put the chicken into the soup, and optionally add some red dates, scallions and ginger slices.
After the fire boiled, it turned into a medium-small fire, and then it was stuffy for more than an hour. I remember a food blogger said that chicken must be stewed for more than an hour, otherwise the meat will not taste good. Then take out the chicken, cut it into pieces, put it in a clean basin, and then add seasonings, such as peanut butter, sesame sauce, Chili oil, coriander, chopped green onion, salt, chicken essence, soy sauce and oyster sauce. Then pour in the cooked chicken soup and stir evenly for three or four minutes before eating.
The chicken made in this way is spicy and delicious, which makes people drool. However, this is really troublesome for us, and the production method is not very standard. Therefore, in order to solve these lazy people's problems, some merchants also invented seasonings for alms chicken. Just pour the seasoning into the basin and add a proper proportion of water to adjust it, and it can be made.